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• • ·Editorial board

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• • ·Long-term effects of bisoprolol compared with imidapril on left ventricular remodeling after reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction: An angiographic study in patients with maintained vessel patency

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    Yuji Yoshitomi, Shunichi Kojima, Michiko Yano, Toshihiko Sugi, Yuji Matsumoto, Morio Kuramochi

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• • ·Circulating levels of cytokines and their site of production in patients with mild to severe chronic heart failure

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    Mario Petretta, Gian L. Condorelli, Letizia Spinelli, Francesco Scopacasa, Maurizio de Caterina, Dario Leosco, Maria L.E. Vicario, Domenico Bonaduce

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• • ·Biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure: Questions of who, what, where, why, how, and how much

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    G.Neal Kay, Robert C. Bourge

    
• • ·The congestion score: A simple tool for a complicated disease?

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    Monica R. Shah, Christopher M. O’Connor

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• • ·Incidence and risk factors predictive of unstable angina resulting from restenosis after percutaneous angioplasty of saphenous vein grafts

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    Baskaran Chandrasekar, Martial G. Bourassa

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• • ·Design and methodology of the ESPRIT trial: Evaluating a novel dosing regimen of eptifibatide in percutaneous coronary intervention

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    J.Conor O’Shea, Mina Madan, Warren J. Cantor, Cynthia M. Pacchiana, Sally Greenberg, Diane M. Joseph, Michael M. Kitt, Todd J. Lorenz, James E. Tcheng

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• • ·Freedom from congestion predicts good survival despite previous class IV symptoms of heart failure

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    Caroline Lucas, Wendy Johnson, Michele A. Hamilton, Gregg C. Fonarow, Mary A. Woo, Carol M. Flavell, Julie A. Creaser, Lynne Warner Stevenson

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• • ·Left ventricular hypertrophy as a predictor of coronary heart disease mortality and the effect of hypertension

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    David W. Brown, Wayne H. Giles, Janet B. Croft

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• • ·Characteristics of patients referred for cardiac transplantation: Implications for the donor organ shortage

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    Ronald Freudenberger, Jo Ann Hoffman Sikora, Stephen Gottlieb, Shawn Robinson, Michael Fisher

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• • ·A pilot experience with permanent biventricular pacing to treat advanced heart failure

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    C. Leclercq, S. Cazeau, P. Ritter, C. Alonso, D. Gras, P. Mabo, A. Lazarus, J.C. Daubert

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• • ·Rate-control versus conversion strategy in postoperative atrial fibrillation: A prospective, randomized pilot study

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    John K. Lee, George J. Klein, Andrew D. Krahn, Raymond Yee, Kelly Zarnke, Christopher Simpson, Allan Skanes, Bonnie Spindler

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• • ·New atrial fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction independently predicts death: The GUSTO-III experience

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    Cheuk-Kit Wong, Harvey D. White, Robert G. Wilcox, Douglas A. Criger, Robert M. Califf, Eric J. Topol, E.Magnus Ohman, for the GUSTO-III Investigators

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• • ·Influence of atrial fibrillation on the morbido-mortality of patients on hemodialysis

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    Eduardo Vázquez, Carmen Sánchez-Perales, Francisco Borrego, M^a José Garcia-Cortés, Cristóbal Lozano, Manuel Guzmán, José-Manuel Gil, M^a José Borrego, Vicente Pérez

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• • ·A randomized study of intravenous magnesium in acute myocardial infarction treated with direct coronary angioplasty

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    Giovanni M. Santoro, David Antoniucci, Leonardo Bolognese, Renato Valenti, Piergiovanni Buonamici, Maurizio Trapani, Alberto Santini, Pier Filippo Fazzini

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• • ·Immediate and one-year outcome of intracoronary stent implantation in small coronary arteries with 2.5-mm stents

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    Jassim Al Suwaidi, Kirk N. Garratt, Peter B. Berger, Charanjit S. Rihal, Malcolm R. Bell, Diane E. Grill, David R. Holmes

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• • ·Thrombolytic therapy for prosthetic valve thrombosis: Short- and long-term results

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    Dhiraj Gupta, Shyam S. Kothari, Vinay K. Bahl, Kewal C. Goswami, Kewal K. Talwar, Subhash C. Manchanda, P. Venugopal

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• • ·Elevated cardiac troponin levels predict the risk of adverse outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes

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    Filippo Ottani, Marcello Galvani, Francesca Antonia Nicolini, Donatella Ferrini, Andrea Pozzati, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Allan S. Jaffe

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• • ·Positron emission tomography and low-dose dobutamine echocardiography in the prediction of postrevascularization improvement in left ventricular function and exercise parameters

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    Henrik Wiggers, Torsten Toftegaard Nielsen, Morten Bøttcher, Henrik Egeblad, Hans Erik Bøtker

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• • ·Specificity of the stress electrocardiogram during adenosine myocardial perfusion imaging in patients taking digoxin

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    Chari Y.T. Hart, Todd D. Miller, David O. Hodge, Raymond J. Gibbons

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• • ·The 24-hour rhythm of blood pressure differs from that of leg hemodynamics in orthotopic heart transplant recipients

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    Edoardo Casiglia, Alessandra Pizziol, Valérie Tikhonoff, Alberto Mazza, Giuseppe Di Menza, Paolo Palatini, Antonio Gambino, Alessia Cerutti, Achille C. Pessina, Dino Casarotto

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